adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In academic or academical manner. a. Platonically; skeptically. b. In relation to an academy or seat of learning.
1591. Horsey, Travels (1857), 237. [We] toke Cambridge … one our waye … and wee wear verie accademicallie enterteyned.
1682. Cabalistical Dial., 17 (T.). These doctrines I propose academically, and for experiment sake.
1775. J. Williamson, Lett., iv. 3 Aug., in Wilkes, Corr. (1805), V. 68. I am told he [Wilkes] has set his face against several applications made on behalf of men not academically trained to the profession.
1828. C. White, Herbert Milton, III. ix. 229. Vatel himself, might not have been ashamed to receive at his hands plans for the distribution of his services,—academically a menue:—vulgo, a bill of fare.
1876. Emerson, Ess., Ser. I. x. 245. There are degrees in idealism. We learn first to play with it academically.
1879. Standard, 1 July, 4. Academically, Ireland is worse off than England.
